An administrative assistant at a logistics firm receives an urgent phone call from someone pretending to be the company's head of IT security. The caller claims that a critical system update is being deployed immediately and requests the assistant's login credentials to prevent their workstation from being locked out of the network.
Identify the specific type of social engineering attack illustrated by this scenario.
Practise AQA GCSE Computer Science Cyber security threats with exam-style questions for GCSE Computer Science. 23 questions covering Social engineering and Malicious code (malware), matched to the AQA GCSE Computer Science (8525) specification and written in Paper 1 and Paper 2 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.